[MPlayer-users] Nvidia driver 185 not supported anymore for vdpau in mplayer svn?

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 05:20:59PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 03:40:05PM +0200, Uoti Urpala wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 18:24 +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > > I just checked out the latest mplayer svn tree, and it fails to detect
> > > vdpau.
> > > 
> > > I have nvidia drivers v185 installed:
> > 
> > 
> > > $ grep -i VDP_VIDEO_MIXER_FEATURE_HIGH_QUALITY_SCALING_L1 /usr/include/vdpau/*
> > > 
> > > no matches found. So newer driver is a requirement nowadays? 
> > 
> > MPlayer svn requires a 190.* VDPAU driver. However if want to use VDPAU
> > then you're better off using the git repo instead of svn (easiest built
> > using git://repo.or.cz/mplayer-build.git). Compared to svn it has a
> > significantly improved VDPAU implementation, and it should also work
> > with older NVIDIA drivers.
> > 
> 
> Thanks for the link.
> Is the git repo replacing svn or what's the deal here? 

I'd leave that at "depends on who you ask".
I think nothing speaks against using whatever works best for you, however
only report bugs against the SVN version to the mplayerhq bugzilla and
even on this list I and a few others might be less inclined to help if
you didn't test SVN.